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Keeping the flame alive

I don’t know for sure but I suspect that a proportion of the Rust’s estimated 875,000 daily readers would agree with me in occasionally becoming tired and frustrated at the incessant complaints of some of our most prolific columnists about the modern world and the way that technology and [...]

January 19, 2017 // 0 Comments

It’s all wonderful in the mad world of PC-correctness

They say that people gravitate towards publications and media outlets that reflect/reinforce their own views rather than those that might tend to broaden their horizons. How did that old joke go? The Times is read by the people who run the country; The Guardian is read by people who would like to [...]

January 17, 2017 // 0 Comments

Not elementary enough, Doctor Watson

Yesterday after my evening meal (having recorded the same on Sunday) and because Monday is worst night of the week for television I watched the third and final episode of the BBC drama’s blockbuster Sherlock’s fourth series. By now most UK viewers will know that this incarnation of Sir Arthur [...]

January 17, 2017 // 0 Comments

Back to Black

I’m not saying that I know I’m preaching to the converted but it will come as no surprise to regular visitors to this website that a recurring theme is not nostalgia per se, or indeed any notion that Fings Ain’t Wot They Used Ter Be, but a simple (and some might like to think logical) common [...]

January 16, 2017 // 0 Comments

Fitness regime (Week Two)

And so, about a fortnight in and probably inevitably, we get to the first real hiccup in my new 2017 personal fitness regime. Last week for reasons beyond my control I had first to spend 36 hours in the country visiting family and then attend a bit of a blow-out meal where copious amounts of [...]

January 16, 2017 // 0 Comments

I was glad to get home, have a meal and watch The Voice on ITV

Saturday 14th January 2017: European Challenge Cup pool stage: Harlequins v Edinburgh Rugby at the Stoop, kick off 1500 hours: Harlequins 18 Edinburgh Rugby 23: (Edinburgh Rugby 4 points for a victory, now certain of reaching the quarter-finals; Harlequins 1 losing bonus point, now needing to win [...]

January 15, 2017 // 0 Comments

Reunion meal

Yesterday I travelled into central London for lunch with a pal and some of his mates, all of them alumni of the same school. There was a certain novelty to the expedition because I’m now about a decade past the time I last commuted into the metropolis and it was fascinating – if you see what I [...]

January 14, 2017 // 0 Comments

Fasten your seat-belts!

A confession. This morning when I came to the computer  I had originally considered apologising for returning to this subject again so soon but then I had second thoughts. Why on earth should I worry, if nobody else isn’t? After all the bizarreness of the world news hit us in 2016, there’s [...]

January 12, 2017 // 0 Comments

Looking from all angles

The advantages of a long trip away are not just to experience new places, cultures and people but to achieve a certain distance and perspective on your own country when you return after 6 weeks. Listening to the various news media, a dominant story has been the crisis in the National Health. One [...]

January 11, 2017 // 0 Comments

Twelve more months

After what might be regarded as the ‘traumas’ of 2016 suffered by the world of Western politics generally, it has been predicted by a number of pundits, commentators and indeed some politicians themselves that we’re going to be in for a pretty rough ride over the next twelve months. One [...]

January 10, 2017 // 0 Comments

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